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What prevents a man’s speaking good sense with a smile on his face?

Horace

Get money; by just means. if you can; if not, still get money.
HORACE

Mean Money Stills
Nor has he spent his life badly who has passed it in privacy.
HORACE

Badly Life People Privacy
Aiming at brevity, I become obscure.
HORACE

Aim Brevity Obscure
Don’t waste the opportunity.
HORACE

Country Opportunity People Waste
In neglected fields the fern grows, which must be cleared out by fire.
HORACE

Fern Field Fire Out
The wolf dreads the pitfall, the hawk suspects the snare, and the kite the covered hook.
HORACE

Cover Lake Rivers Sea
Pale death, with impartial step, knocks at the hut of the poor and the towers of kings. [Lat., Pallida mors aequo pulsat pede pauperum tabernas Regumque turres.]
HORACE

Death King Tower
Often turn the stile [correct with care], if you expect to write anything worthy of being read twice. [Lat., Saepe stilum vertas, iterum quae digna legi sint Scripturus.]
HORACE

Authorship Care Write
I have erected amonument more lasting than bronze.
HORACE

Appreciation Bronze Country People
Remember to be calm in adversity.
HORACE

Adversity Calm Remember
One cannot know everything.
HORACE

Everything Know Knowledge
What do sad complaints avail if the offense is not cut down by punishment.
HORACE

Anger Cut Punishment
In adversity, remember to keep an even mind.
HORACE

Adversity Inspirational Motivational
Gold will be slave or master.
HORACE

Gold Master People Slave
Do not try to find out – we’re forbidden to know – what end the gods have in store for me, or for you.
HORACE

Destiny End Try
The envious pine at others’ success; no greater punishment than envy was devised by Sicilian tyrants.
HORACE

Envy Punishment Tyrant

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